Eduardo Velez Bustillo
Education Sector Manager, East Asia and Pacific, World Bank, USA
Eduardo Velez has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois. His field of study was Applied Social Statistics. His areas of interest include Sociology of Social and Economic Development, Sociology of Education, and Analysis and Evaluation of Development Programs.
Dr. Velez has had a long trajectory at the World Bank in Washington D.C., Mexico City and in Beijing. He is currently Education Sector Manager for East Asia and the Pacific, and has been Education Sector Manager for Latin American and the Caribbean, Sector Coordinator (Human Development) for the China program, Sector Leader (Human and Social Development for Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela), and Human Development Cluster Leader for Uganda and Tanzania. He also served as Principal Education Specialist for Eastern and Southern Africa. Before joining the World Bank, Dr. Velez was Adjunct Director at Instituto Ser de Investigación in Bogotá, Colombia, his country of origin.
Dr. Velez has also held an extensive academic career. He has been a Visiting Professor at the following places: Universidad Nacional, Bogotá; Brown University; University of Connecticut; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá; Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Bogotá; and at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.
Dr. Velez has written extensively on the subject of Economics, Education, Development and Sociology (has published nine books and more than 90 articles in professional journals or as chapters in books, and research reports).